SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 9 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+.
“Severance” is known for its precise visual aesthetic, and that’s seen nowhere more clearly than within the surveilled halls of Lumon. Part of Lumon’s institutional power arises from its ability to make every employee adhere to the ethos of its founder, Kier Eagan, instilling a strict dedication to a mythology that blurs the lines between corporate culture and religion.
Lumon’s way of communicating the Eagan family’s ideals and beliefs is often through visual art. For the “Severance” artisans, using art to canonize the story of Lumon was “definitely intentional from the
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